Translation
apparatus, device
Word origin
From Latin apparatus, 'equipment, preparation', the past participle of apparare (ad- plus parare, 'to make ready'). English apparatus, apparel and prepare all come from that parare.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- apparatus
- English cognates
- apparatus, apparel, prepare
Examples
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The doctor used a new device.
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That device does not work without electricity.
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We need a smaller device.
Three words sit close together here. is a tool you hold, has moving parts and does work, and is the assembled device built for one job - a telephone, a camera, a hearing aid. Esperanto also builds device names freely with the - suffix, so o and need no borrowing; is for the ones that would sound odd with it.
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